BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Eventin//Event Calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:943601be7f54e2c26433057aaf7d5efa@maldonbooks.com SUMMARY:Sarah Perry in conversation with Kate Sawyer DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting evening as we welcome acclaimed author Sarah Perry to Maldon's United Reformed Church on Thursday\, July 4th. In c onversation with fellow author Kate Sawyer\, Sarah will discuss her highly anticipated new novel\, 'Enlightenment\,' a story of love and astronomy tol d over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.\n\nFollowing the discussion\, there will be an opportunity to purc hase a copy of 'Enlightenment\,' and have your book signed.\n\nTickets/book s can be purchased online here or at the bookshop. \n\nPlease note there i s only disabled parking at the venue\, the nearest car parks in Maldon are Butt Lane car park or the White Horse Lane car park. \n\nThe event will st art at 7pm\, with doors opening at 6:30pm\n\n*When purchasing a ticket\, pl ease select 'collect from shop' at the checkout - your ticket is your email confirmation.*\n\nAbout Sarah Perry\n\nSarah Perry is the internationally best selling author of the novels Melmoth\, The Essex Serpent\, and After M e Comes the Flood\, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstone's Book of the Year Awards and the British Book Awards\, and has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women's Prize for F iction\, the Dylan Thomas Prize\, the Folio Prize and the Costa Novel Award . Her essays have been widely published\, and she has contributed to the Gu ardian\, the New York Times\, the Observer\, and the London Review of Books . She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has a PhD in Creat ive Writing\, and has been a UNESCO City of Literature Writer in Residence in Prague\, and a Writer in Residence at Gladstone's Library and the Savoy Hotel in London. Her second novel\, the No 1 bestseller The Essex Serpent\, is currently being adapted for television\, starring Claire Danes in the l ead role.\n\nAbout Kate Sawyer\n\nKate Sawyer worked as an actor and produc er\, and wrote several short films before turning her hand to fiction. She is the author of two novels\, most recently the critically acclaimed\, Wate rstones Fiction Book of The Month\, This Family. Her debut novel\, The Stra nding\, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award\, won the East Angl ian fiction prize\, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and is bein g developed for TV by Fremantle and Afua Hirsch's production company Born I n Me. When Kate isn't writing\, or talking to other authors about their wri ting practices for her podcast Novel Experience and as a chair for author events\, she is busy producing the annual Bury St Edmunds Literature Fest ival.  After twenty years living in London\, she recently returned to her native East Anglia\, where she lives with her young daughter.\n\nIf you hav e any queries regarding this event\, please do not hesitate to contact us a t maldonbooksltd@gmail.com or 01621854968 LOCATION:Online DTSTAMP:20261105T224700Z DTSTART:20240704T180000Z DTEND:20261105T203000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR